Crossword-Solution: TIPULA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tipula | n. | Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TIPULA | anagram | LUPITA |
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| Crane fly | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECEMA
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eruption
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Sentences with TIPULA (5)
Grasshoppers and other _Orthoptera_ were rare, as were _Hemiptera_; _Tipula_ was the common dipterous insect, with a small sand-fly: there were neither leeches, mosquitos, ticks, nor midges.
Where song birds are scarce the Tipula is capable of utterly destroying grass and of seriously ravaging the Kitchen Garden; but cultivation, aided by the robins, thrushes, nightingales, and other birds, will keep the insect within bounds, even after a hot summer favourable to its increase.
Tipula Larva.] For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest.
Diabrotica vittata.] Among the flies, mosquitoes now appear, though they have not yet, perhaps, strayed far from their native swamps and fens; and their mammoth allies, the Daddy-long-legs (Tipula), rise from the fields and mould of our gardens in great numbers.
Among insects, some (_e.g._ grasshopper, cricket, ant, etc.) produce young in the ordinary way, by the union of the sexes; in other cases (_e.g._ flies and fleas) this union of the sexes results in the production of a _skolex_; while others have no parents, nor do they have congress--such are the ephemera, tipula, and the like.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1980).